In This Time of National Crisis, Where Are the Women?

Speaker: 
Marie Wilson
 
08 Oct 2001
 
8:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

Marie Wilson, an advocate of women's issues for more than 30 years, became president of the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1984 and helped launch its successful public education campaign, Take Our Daughters To Work_ Day. In 1998, she co- founded The White House Project, a non-partisan organization dedicated to changing the political climate to get more women elected to office, including the presidency. In 1999, she founded the Women's Leadership Fund, a public education initiative to change perceptions about and biases against women's leadership ability. Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Mary Louise Smith Fall Scholar.